3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company E

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Muster In: 1st Battalion Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, assigned as Company “E.”¹
Muster Out: Mustered out November 9, 1865.²

Commander(s):
Major Franz von Schilling
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Captain Erskine H. Miles
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Siege Artillery | Army of the James | Union Army (November 1-30, 1864)³

? (Not specifically listed in the OOB for December 31, 1864.  What happened to this unit?  More research needed.

• Commander: Major Franz von Schilling (Cos. E & G)(December 31, 1864)⁴
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Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Artillery | Defenses of Bermuda Hundred | Army of the James | Union Army⁵,⁶

• Commander: Captain Erskine H. Miles (March 31, 1865)⁷
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles⁸:

• Companies “D,” “E” and “G” in Butler’s operations on south side of James River against Petersburg and Richmond May, 1864, then at various redoubts and forts on the Bermuda Hundred front until May, 1865.
• Posted principally on the Bermuda Hundred front.

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